Example sentences of "he give [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 2 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 3 | His quest for adventure led him to give up the business and sail around the world with a friend in 1980 — but disaster struck . |
| 4 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 5 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 6 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 7 | There was a receipt showing that after lack of money forced him to give up the flat , in 1989 , he bought a luxury caravan . |
| 8 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |
| 9 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 10 | How much help did he give in the house ? |
| 11 | What is he giving up the farm then ? |
| 12 | Once he is distracted , I push on hard and he gives up the game . |
| 13 | The buyer , on the other hand , wishes to put off acceptance as long as possible , so that he can be sure the goods are totally satisfactory to him before he gives up the opportunity of rejecting them . |
| 14 | The Rev John Boocock said he was looking forward to acting the David Dimbleby role as he gives up the regular ‘ sermon slot ’ for a full interview in which he will try and investigate the relationship between the church and education . |
| 15 | After he gave up the booze at Christmas 1977 — for good - he gave us his splendid Brian which is as clever and well-judged a piece of comic acting as you 'll see . |
| 16 | His head slumped forward as he gave up the ghost . |
| 17 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 18 | But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea . |
| 19 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 20 | On 2 April 1746 he gave up the attempt and headed hastily north ‘ in a great hurry and confusion ’ . |
| 21 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 22 | Such was his disillusionment that he gave up the practice of medicine for a while and supported himself and his growing family by undertaking translation work , at the same time pursuing his chemical and botanical studies . |
| 23 | He gave up the job , but was reappointed in 1989 . |
| 24 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 25 | He gave up the fishing business . |
| 26 | Nevertheless he was determined to do his bit , so he gave up the firewood business and went back to the casting shop to make shell cases . |
| 27 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 28 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 29 | ‘ He gave up the letters , Natasha . |
| 30 | During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 . |